Innovation, Entertainment and The Quest for Attention
Entertainment plays an important in our lives. It brings individuals together, increases happiness and releases stress. Some even consider entertainment a basic human need.
Print media—newspapers, magazine news, or books, to name a few—is the oldest form of mass communication. It started around 1440, and Johannes Gutenberg is often cited as the inventor of the printing press, the device that made it possible to print letters on printing mediums with ink.
Later, radios debuted in the early 20th century and influenced mass media communication. Thereupon came the era of animated visual imagery—television. The first broadcast was in 1928, and from there on, everything else followed, from VCR to DVDs along with extensions that can be connected to televisions, such as game consoles.
Today, the combination and culmination of print media, radio, and television grew to become the media and entrainment industry (M&E). The USA is the largest player globally, with an industry valued at $720 Billion.
